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Date: 21 Dec 92 12:56:11 GMT
From: psinntp!vitro.com!news@uunet.uu.net  (Morris J. Zwick)
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?
Message-ID: <1992Dec21.125611.20372@vitro.com>
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In article <1992Dec18.181158.28683@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com
(fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>I think students would be best served by using something INTENDED for
>teaching, which is relatively safe and small.  That pretty much means
>Pascal.  Some schools have had good luck with LISP/SCHEME style
>languages, but I'm not sure how easy they are to deal with as first
>languages, either.
>

AMEN!!

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